Apparently I can’t reblog something from my “main” blog to a group blog that I manage.
That seems kind of silly.
Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Apparently I can’t reblog something from my “main” blog to a group blog that I manage.
That seems kind of silly.
Dreamed it was possible to create ball lightning using a milkshake, in a simple experiment that anyone could do at home. Well, anyone who owned a rail gun, that is. You just had to launch the milkshake with the rail gun…
Nice bit of perspective on software usability. I particularly like the comment, “No one feels passionate about SharePoint. But they do about WordPress.”
The Software is Wrong, Not the People | Joe Flood
It was a small moment at the WordPress DC Meetup. One of the creators of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, was in town.
Comments on Google+:
Wayne: I’d love to buck the trend of saying “The computer is always right.” I like how having something open source allows us to act on and resolve our gripes so we don’t have to resign ourselves to the technology we depend on. After all, we are supposed to be the creators and therefore the masters, right? ;p (No matter how situations may actually play out. lol)
Regan: Definitely a refreshing perspective. After hearing David curse for about 5-7 hours straight trying to muddle through the quirks of the HTC software (he’d had a Pre for a couple years), I can definitely appreciate someone admitting that a program is wrong, not the user.
A recent Pearls Before Swine strip. Remember, no matter how rude, obnoxious or insulting someone is, you can’t be mad at them if they include a winking smiley emoticon.
Tonight, Katie and I sang J to sleep with Frank’s 2000″ TV, Achy Breaky Song, and Jurassic Park. Why, yes, we did recently go see a Weird Al concert. Why do you ask?
The proper response to “I tried X and it didn’t work” is not “You should try X.”
I read the first issue of Elric: The Balance Lost this week. When I first heard that BOOM! was going to be launching an Elric series, I was somewhat interested, but not certain I’d pick it up. It wasn’t written by Michael Moorcock himself, and besides I hadn’t enjoyed his most recent Elric novel nearly as much as his earlier works. But then I read the preview they released for Free Comic Book Day, and I was hooked.
The story spans at least four worlds in Moorcock’s multiverse, and four incarnations of the Eternal Champion: Elric, last ruler of a dead empire, who wields the black sword Stormbringer and absorbs the souls of those he kills so that he can live; Hawkmoon, champion of a distant future Earth who defeated the conquering empire of Granbretan; Corum, last of a dead race who fought to protect the humans who inherited his world; and Eric Beck, a game developer living in a world not unlike our own. The first issue establishes all four characters and the worlds they come from, so that new readers unfamiliar with Moorcock’s work will understand the basics, and shows each world threatened by the tipping balance. Elric finds himself in a world overrun by chaos, while Eric Beck’s more familiar world is beginning to shift too far toward order. By the end of the issue, Eric finds himself drawn into the adventure. It’s one of the most effective first issues I’ve read in a while, managing to mix exposition and action and end on a hook that makes me feel like the next issue will jump straight into the story.
The Unwritten continues to hold the spot as my favorite ongoing series. The latest issue is essentially a caper, with Tom, Lizzie and Savoy trying to infiltrate the auction of author Wilson Taylor’s estate. It’s got all the twists and turns in terms of allegiances, who has the upper hand, and who *thinks* they have the upper hand, that you’d expect, and in the end it manages to both answer some questions about Tom Taylor’s origins and call into question some of what we thought we knew, all while setting things up for the next phase of the story. I’ve always been a sucker for stories about stories, which I’m sure is why Sandman resonated so well with me when I finally started reading it, but The Unwritten tackles the concept from an entirely different angle, focusing on the way stories — whether history, fiction, propaganda, or the stories we tell ourselves to justify our actions — shape the world.
Of course, as a DC reader and a Flash fan, it would be virtually impossible to avoid Flashpoint. I’m reading the main series and six of the tie-in miniseries. Of those, the ones I’m enjoying the most are Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown, Kid Flash Lost, and Citizen Cold. The first issue of Frankenstein is crazy World-War II action featuring the Frankenstein monster and lawyer-friendly versions of Dracula, the Wolfman, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and features Frankenstein personally killing Adolf Hitler with a sword. It’s hard to go wrong with that. Citizen Cold feels like a return to the glory days of the Geoff Johns/Scott Kolins run on The Flash, only with everything shifted around to make Captain Cold the protagonist. It’s interesting to see how little has changed in Central/Keystone City when the rest of the world is vastly different. Kid Flash Lost feels more like a continuation of The Flash Vol.3 than Flashpoint does, except better. It’s faster paced, despite the fact that the main character has lost his speed for the duration. It manages to justify some of the odd choices from “The Road to Flashpoint” that just came out of nowhere. Most importantly, Sterling Gates really understands Bart Allen’s personality in a way that I never really saw in Geoff Johns’ Teen Titans or Flash runs (though there were glimpses of him in Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds).
As for Flashpoint itself, it continues to remind me a lot of Geoff Johns’ first Flash story, Wonderland. The first two issues didn’t really grab me, but things are picking up with the third as it moves beyond exposition and into rising action. Maybe it’s just me, but in a five-issue miniseries, shouldn’t you be done with setup in the first issue, not half-way through the third?
Other comics I’ve read recently: Farscape is moving toward the conclusion of its year-long story about the invasion of the Uncharted Territories. It still feels a bit too much like New Jedi Order, with the arrival of an unbeatable enemy and the wholesale demolition of large chunks the universe that had been built up by four years of the TV series, but it’s continuing to hold my interest. And Tiny Titans #41, the All-Flash issue, was a welcome counterpart to the grimness of Flashpoint: Legion of Doom and Grodd of War.
I wouldn’t say I’m considering getting a tablet for the DC relaunch, but I have added it to my list of other reasons I’m considering a tablet.
As much as I like print comics, I have to admit that I don’t re-read most of them, and I have a lot of long boxes. The idea of buying digital monthlies and then printed collections of the books I want to reread has a strong appeal.
Called out someone for being rude & dismissive in the comments on my blog, and of course now *I’m* the bad guy. *eyeroll*
Happy Fourth of July!
I like the way this one just lights up the cloud of smoke. It reminds me of pictures of nebulae in deep space, clouds of gas reflecting the light from nearby stars.
I’ve got a few more shots in this Independence Day 2010 photoset.
xkcd explains Google+ https://xkcd.com/918/
“The problem isn’t that people are idiots…The problem is that the OS trusts random USB sticks.” Yet Another “People Plug in Strange USB Sticks” Story (via Slashdot)
The upside of reposting or linking your content on social networks: more people see it. The downside: you fragment the conversation. Instead of everyone interacting together in one place, you have one conversation on your site, another on Twitter, a third on Facebook, a fourth on Tumblr…
The Robustness Principle Reconsidered. (via ma.tt) I remember a lot of discussions on this during my spamfighting days.
Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users’ Pics
WTF, Facebook? I can see blocking new uploads if you're not familiar with an app that (for instance) suddenly gets picked up by spammers, but even in that case, you should check and see if there are legit uploads from the same app before deleting everything every uploaded with the tool.
Insane beverage? Spotted at Trader Joe’s.
You know something’s wrong with your traffic engineering when 5 cars in a row make U-turns.
Very cool demo of gesture-based and multi-device computer UI “Mezzanine” from Oblong. https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/23/oblong-mezzanine/ via @techcrunch
Finally! Three months after we moved, AT&T has removed the last of the crammed charges from our phone bill at the *old* place.
“Citation Needed” by Kate Beaton. This has apparently been making the rounds on Twitter and Tumblr for a couple of days.